On Saturday 27 November 2004 00.11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> writes: > > Proposal: split packages into 'conventional' debs and support debs. > - existing dpkg/apt/aptitude/dselect has to keep working so we need a > full Packages file Not sure about that. One of the benefits of support packages would be that the Packages file could be smaller - since support packages are very tightly coupled to their 'mother packages', there may not even be a need for any file where all support packages are listed - just throw them in the pool. Obviously, this would require a double release cycle to introduce them (until oldstable's packaging tools know about this), so maybe a transition could be listing them in the Packages file. (Perhaps the modification could be as small as allowing multiple 'Filename' entries in the Packages file? I don't know enough about the details of how packages flow through Debain to know if that could be a solution, though.) cheers -- vbi -- TODO: apt-get install signify
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